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New weekend and I planned to do double-double activation this weekend. Weather forecast was a bit unstable but at the end wx was quite ok during the daylight hours. OHFF-0244 Vuonajärven luonnonsuojelualue or in English Lake Vuonajärvi protected area was a new one for WWFF. This area is not far from Pinkjärvi OHFF-0237, just slightly more south and on the other side of E8-road. The protection area itself is few hundred meters from Lake Vuonajärvi and it was nice, calm pine forest with the rock base. We found a good place to park our car and I decided to set up the station on the rock to the few meters higher ground only maybe 50 meters from the parking point.

Again I started on 40m CW and the pileup was deep. I managed to work “the mandatory” 44 qsos in 21 minutes. From Vuonajärvi 40m SSB was also running very nicely – 42 qsos only in 19 minutes! So location was good although the lake itself wasn’t helping – it was in the SE direction. Added more contacts on 80, 30 and 20m and packed after 1 hour and 45 minutes. Logged totally 163 qsos and 143 hunters – exactly same amount of unique calls than from OHFF-0170.